PSALM OF MYSTERY

It’s hard always to be honest, even to friends: to say what I really feel, honest to God.

The best anyone can do is to speak more clearly: to express what seems important for us today.

Church can often be dull, an irrelevant muddle: songs be telling mysteries in banal repetitions.

Have I then lost my faith in God: is a Jesus-centred church not speaking to my heart?

The mystery of wonder does not go away: the simplistic way we tell it is not honest.

It’s hard always to be positive, especially to myself: to feel I am not alone, or a lonely soul;

the better way for survival is to focus afresh: looking to future visions, imagining dreams.

The past may be a retreat into torment: my own world all there is, with loneliness;

have I then lost my faith in others: is the silence inside not giving me hope?

Looking out continually, widens the view: even when I’m alone, there’s more to know.

Does science now answer everything, nothing to fear: keep on looking and listening, measuring everything?

"However hard you listen, you will never understand: however hard you look, you will never see."

Answers may not bring truth or enlightenment: asking the questions again can deepen the mystery.

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